December 30 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🎁 Gift Wrapping Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇸🇰 Slovakia – The day Slovakia was declared an independent church province.
🇵🇭 Philippines – National Hero Jose Rizal Day.
🇲🇬 Madagascar – Republic Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1410 – Battle of Grunwald.
– 1517 – The city of Jerusalem was conquered by Sultan Selim I.
– 1806 – Turkey declared war on Russia. Russia occupied Baku.
– 1815 – Napoleon I surrendered to the captain of the ship “Bellerophon”.
– 1817 – The first coffee plantations were established in Hawaii.
– 1870 – Georgia returned to the United States.
– 1903 – A major fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago (USA). More than 600 people died and 250 were injured.
– 1904 – The British Post was the first in the world to introduce a telegram service to ships.
– 1916 – The murder of Grigory Rasputin
– 1917 – A resolution of support for the Turkestan Autonomy was adopted, as well as a vote of no confidence in the Council of People’s Commissars of the Turkestan Territory.
– 1922 – The USSR was founded.
– 1927 – Russian chemist Sergei Lebedev was the first in the world to develop a method for producing synthetic rubber.
– 1927 – The Tokyo Metro was opened.
– 1941 – The cities of Kerch, Feodosia, and Kaluga were liberated.
– 1947 – The Kingdom of Romania was abolished and the Romanian People’s Republic was established.
– 1953 – The first color television is released in the United States.
– 1993 – Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
– 2004 – Fire at the Republic of Cro-Magnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, 194 people die.
– 2006 – Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for the Dujail massacre, is hanged.
– 2013 – Tram explosion in Volgograd.
